SHE IS TALKING ABOUT THE MORE THAN DELIBERATELY SET FIRE TO THE CONTROVERSIAL HEIDELBERG PROJECT. AND GREW SOME DISCOVERY AT THIS EAST SIDE COMMUNITY. THIS IS VERY SCARY. A WOMAN MURDERED AND HER BODY CUT INTO PIECES. WELL, IT REALLY IS A GREW SOME CRIME. AND TONIGHT POLICE HAVE ONE MAN IN CUSTODY. LET'S GO TO SANDRA ALI. I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE VICTIM, SAND RUE. RUTH, STEVE WE ARE GETTING BRAND NEW INFORMATION. WE ARE CONFIRMING THE WOMAN WAS IN HER 40s. WE SHOULD POINT OUT RIGHT OFF THE BAT SHE DID NOT LIVE HERE. SHE WAS NOT A TENANT. SOURCES CONFIRM TO LOCAL4 SHE WAS SEEN HERE SUNDAY AT THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX AND SEEN AGAIN MONDAY. NO ONE HAD SEEN HER SINCE THEN UNTIL POLICE MADE THE GREW SOME DISCOVERY AGAIN TODAY IN THE SUSPECT'S APARTMENT. I JUST CAME OFF THE ELEVATOR AND I SAW BLOOD IN THE LOBBY FLOOR. THAT'S WHAT I SAW. VERY SCARY. VERY SCARY. SENIORS ON THE EDGE. FORCED OUT OF THEIR APARTMENT AFTER POLICE USED CADAVER DOGS USED TO CANVAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND A TRAIL OF BLOOD LEFT BEHIND ON THE SIDEWALK. AND HERE ON THE 800 BLOCK DICKERSON 90 NONPARTISAN GUARDS, AIN'T NO GOOD GUARDS, AIN'T NOTHING HERE. A TENANT CALLED POLICE THIS MORNING AFTER FINDING BLOOD IN THE LOBBY IN THE EARLY VARITEK AND POLICE DISCOVERED A WOMAN'S BODY DISMEMBERED IN THE BATHTUB WITH A HACK SAW AND SEVERAL KITCHEN KNIVES. IT IS SCARY, YOU KNOW. IT IS VERY SCARY. POLICE LATER ARRESTED THIS MAN THAT YOU SEE HERE IN THE BACK OF THE AMBULANCE. A 72-YEAR-OLD TENANT CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR. HE'S LIVED IN THE BUILDING FOR SOME TIME. HIS NEIGHBORS ARE HORRIFIED BUT NOT SURPRISED. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL GET UNTIL YOU GET IT. HE WAS A WEIRD GUY, REAL WEIRD. AGAIN WE SHOULD POINT OUT HE IS UNDER ARREST. POLICE ARE NOT RELEASING HIS NAME AS OF YET. YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT THE FIELD, THE NEARBY FIELD THAT OFFICERS SEARCH ALL AFTERNOON WITH CADAVER DOGS CONFIRMING TO US A SHORT TIME AGO AND SAY THEY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR SOME MISSING BODY PARTS AT THIS POINT. BACK TO YOU. DO THE INVESTIGATORS HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP WAS BETWEEN THE MAN AND THE VICTIM? RUTH, AT THIS POINT THEY ARE SAYING IT IS PRETTY TRICKY AND THEY ARE TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT. THEY KNOW THEY WERE AT LEAST FRIENDS. THEY POSSIBLY MAY HAVE HAD A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. THE SUSPECT UNDER ARREST ISN'T TALKING AT ALL. THEY ARE TRYING TO GET SOME INFORMATION FROM HIM AND TRY TO

DETROIT -

One person was taken into custody Friday after a woman's body was found in a senior housing complex on Detroit's east side.

Sources said the body of a woman in her 40s was discovered in an upstairs apartment at the Phillip Sims apartments on Dickerson Street.

Her body was in pieces in a bathtub. A hacksaw and kitchen knives also were found.

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Detroit police brought in tracking dogs Friday afternoon to search for additional body parts in a parking lot near the apartment complex.

"I just came off the elevator and I saw blood on the lobby floor. That's what I saw," said Alfred Pettigrew, who lives in the complex. "Very scary."

The residents were forced from their homes as police searched.

No motive as to what may have led to the gruesome event has been released.

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